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Red Herring Games

By creating a simple web application, we were able to deliver a 1000% ROI; a huge cost saving every year!

May 25, 2020 by lykeltd

Wow! Fixed my issues really quickly and also helped with other software to make the custom software work. This was a major problem for us costing us several thousand a year… Andy fixed it for under £2k by actually LISTENING to what we needed and fixing what the actual problem was easily and speedily saving us thousands!

Jo Smedley, Founder & Managing Director of Red Herring Games

Background

Based in Grimsby, Red Herring Games are a multi-award winning company that provide a huge range of games all over the world. Specialising in murder mystery, they can even develop games that are completely bespoke! Additionally, Red Herring host live murder mystery events and parties throughout the year with trained actors and these have been moved online.

Brief

For most games, Red Herring have a character booklet detailed the game play and instructions. These are customised to each client which produces lengthy documents with many pages, as each document contains all of the character booklets for one game. For example, the average character booklet is 8 pages; so if it is a 10 player game, the document would be 80 pages long.

The problem was the lack of an easy way to separate the booklets, meaning if only one page changed the entire document would need to be sent to the printer again. It also meant there was no way of sending individual booklets. You can see how, overtime, the cost of doing this soon racks up and therefore eats into profit margin. The way the documents are produced needed to stay the same, so our mission was to find a way to split the large documents into separate booklets.

How we helped

In this case the solution was simple – we created a web application that takes the documents containing every booklet and splits them based on the number of pages entered by the user, saving them as individual documents. The application can do this in bulk and because it’s in the cloud not only can it be used from any computer in the world but it also boasts impressive speeds irrespective of the user’s computer.

For us, this illustrates that bespoke solutions don’t have to be huge and complicated to have a significant impact on your business. In many ways the software we developed was the missing part of the puzzle for Red Herring Games, and has made life quicker and easier. Not to mention the saving in printing costs, which is huge.

On top of this, we were pleased to be able to advise the staff on some of the best software available to help them achieve other tasks. After all, there’s no point in re-inventing the wheel and we’d rather focus on creating solutions to supercharge your business!

We urge you to use this as inspiration to look at your business and think: what small task is having an impact on your profit margin? You may be surprised, and it’s a great starting point to explore how custom software could help you.

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We'd love to be able to help you. Even if you've only got an idea or would just like some advice, please do get in touch. We're in the business of helping other businesses go from zero to hero...

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Gregg Sellars
Gregg Sellars
10:26 21 May 20
Lyke... Limited have just finished Quickboxes new website and Andy has been brilliant every step of the way! I would DEFINITELY recommend Lyke as the right company to go to for your next website project. Thank you Andy!read more
Stefan Christie
Stefan Christie
10:56 17 Feb 20
Grea... t to work with Andy, very helpful and goes above and beyond in all aspects of the project!read more
Joanne Smedley
Joanne Smedley
15:29 16 Jan 20
Wow!... Fixed my issues really quickly and also helped with other software to make the custom software work. This was a major problem for us tcosting us several thousand a year. The firm who originally handled it - wouldn't listen to what I wanted, and wanted over £21k to fix an issue I knew could be fixed easier doing it at the "other end" of the problem. They then "patched" the problem, and didn't tell us that the patch was going to increase print costs by 700% so that cost us AGAIN! Andy fixed it for under £2k by actually LISTENING to what we needed and fixing what the actual problem was easily and speedily saving us thousands!read more
Linda sawyer Sawyer
Linda sawyer Sawyer
12:05 21 Aug 19
It... has been amazing to work with Andy, he has worked with me to set up an E- commerce Website, he’s been very helpful all the way through, I couldn’t of asked for a nicer person to work with. My Website is up and running ,it’s amazing, he’s done a brilliant job. I would highly recommend Andy to anyone.😊 I Look forward to working with him in the future.read more
Julie Varley
Julie Varley
08:28 01 Aug 19
Andy... has been a joy to work with. He has updated our company website to a highly professional standard at an extremely fair price. I have had no problem in contacting Andy for any ongoing advice and support and I would certainly recommend him to any one who is looking to update or improve their online presence just as we have.read more
Lincolnshire CF
Lincolnshire CF
20:31 19 Jun 19
Amaz... ing service, yet again, from Andy. He really does go above and beyond to support clients. Thank youread more
Karen Kennedy
Karen Kennedy
12:20 14 May 19
Afte... r working with Lyke Ltd for over 3 years, we are more than happy to recommend Andy. Not only has he worked on our website but he has also developed some very useful estimating software for our sales and estimating team. It also helps that Andy is professional, kind and has a huge amount of patience with those of us with just enough tech knowledge to do a considerable amount of damage.read more
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a16makesomenoise .
18:41 22 Dec 18
Andy... at Lyke Ltd is amazing! Our previous internet Webmaster had issues... so we asked Andy for help! We asked for what we thought was an impossible task, with no time it which to do it, just days before Christmas! And Andy has Amazed us, he is calm under pressure, reassuringly focused, and very determined when presented with a challenge! Thankyou Andy, we are really looking forward to working with you to develop our Website, online store, gallery and promotional material. We feel like we've found a diamond!read more
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